Editing Moe Szyslak (section)

=== Personality ===

Moe is one of the darkest secondary characters in the show. He is portrayed with a generally disagreeable personality: he has a short, violent temper, a penurious nature, a crass and undiplomatic manner of speech, and a mood that rapidly vacillates between anger, indifference, and [[suicide|suicidal despair]] (the latter of which has become more apparent in later episodes of the show). He has an annual Christmas tradition of attempted suicide, but his attempts are comically unsuccessful (landing on a hot-air balloon after jumping out of a plane, for example), and he has already called the suicide hotline so many times that they've blocked his number.<ref>Vincent Terrace, ''Television Series of the 1980s'' (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), 201-2. {{ISBN|1442278315}}</ref>

He is easily irritated, frequently threatening the patrons at his bar with a [[shotgun]] he keeps behind the counter. He is also gullible, and Bart's unending chain of successful prank calls to his bar are particularly infuriating to him, inevitably prompting a torrent of [[Tube Bar prank calls#History|Red Deutsch]]-style threats of gruesome bodily harm in return.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}

He also is, however, occasionally shown to have a sentimental and caring side to his personality, such as reading to sick children and homeless people, although he is secretive about such behavior. In his interactions with his various girlfriends, he has also shown genuine selflessness and kindness (as well as an unusual improvement in his disposition), although negative elements of his personality inevitably emerge and ruin things. He has also struck up genuine friendships with both of Homer's daughters which have remained in the following episodes. In "[[Thank God It's Doomsday]]", he asks for salvation, because "I've done stuff I ain't proud of. And the stuff I ''am'' proud of is disgusting."<ref>[http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season16/doomsday7.mp3 Audio snippet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407094306/http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season16/doomsday7.mp3 |date=2014-04-07 }} from ''[[Thank God It's Doomsday]]''</ref> He donated $25,000 to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2V8cvXqP0k&ab_channel=AniDom Moe donating to Puerto Rico]</ref>